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Mr Bates vs The Post Office is most watched programme of 2024 so far and ITV's best drama in three years, with powerful series telling how hundreds of real-life ex postmasters were falsely accused of fraud
Mr Bates vs. The Post Office is the most watched programme of the year so far, and ITV's most popular drama of the last three years.
The four-part series tells the story of a long-running campaign to expose the Horizon IT system scandal, in which hundreds of Post Office staff were wrongfully accused of theft and fraud. The four-part series tells the story of a long-running campaign to expose the Horizon IT system scandal, in which hundreds of Post Office staff were wrongfully accused of theft and fraud(L-R: Julie Hesmondhalgh as Suzanne Sercombe, Toby Jones as Alan Bates, Monica Dolan as Jo Hamilton and Asif Khan as Mohammad Sabir) 'Aside from it being a ratings hit, dramatising the story with such a high calibre of British actors has reignited the campaign for justice nearly 25 years on, for a group of ordinary people - and the entire nation is behind them.'
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